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Topics => Sports => Topic started by: Libertas on April 30, 2014, 07:54:43 AM
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http://theweek.com/article/index/260684/speedreads-ioc-official-rios-olympics-preparations-are-the-worst-i-have-experienced (http://theweek.com/article/index/260684/speedreads-ioc-official-rios-olympics-preparations-are-the-worst-i-have-experienced)
IOC going to help the poor folks pull this through...no matter what...
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So glad we didn't get the games here in the Chicago area.
Plus it was delicious to see city politicians not get what they thought they had in the bag. I mean even the chosen one flew off to Europe to lobby for it. I guess he thought they would just give it to him just because he is Barry the king.......
Loved how they got bumped off in the first round.
Frankly the more I learn about the olympics, the less I like it. Their choices of venues, frankly couldn't have been worse. Where is the next one going to be? North Korea?
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Heh, yeah...Pyongyang would be swell, eh?
If a native athlete fails to win they'll feed him to the starving masses...
And that nutball Rodman can sit up on the dais with Lil' un!
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This is so going to be a fun summer...Us kabuki election highjinks, economy going deeper into the crapper, world going apeshyt, and now the olympics in Brazil are about to go full-retard!
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-19/olympics-looms-officials-warn-rio-close-social-collapse (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-04-19/olympics-looms-officials-warn-rio-close-social-collapse)
They have one President whacked, impeaching another, economy near collapse, Zika virus raging, olympics is way short of volunteers and God knows what the accomodation is down there for athletes and tourists...
How would you like to hear the starting gun go off for a race and next thing you know more shots ring out?
You couldn't bribe me with anything to be anywhere near this fustercluck...should be a hoot to watch on world-wide TV though should crap hit the fan though...
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I thought North Korea was hosting it this year?
::laughonfloor::
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Indicted.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/14/world/americas/cristina-fernandez-kirchner-indicted.html?_r=0 (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/14/world/americas/cristina-fernandez-kirchner-indicted.html?_r=0)
Who would have thought it possible? Brazil having a better functioning justice system than the US?
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Still on the bright side...
(http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2016/04/19/20160419_barzil1.jpg)
I'm a male chauvinist pig. Sue me.
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Man, her back must get plenty sore. ;D
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These games are going to be a riot...perhaps for real. Last I heard not all the venues were ready yet and accomodations for athletes and visitors were in short supply.
And now, the Zika is going wild - http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-18/rio-s-olympic-hospitals-unable-to-take-new-patients-report-says (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-07-18/rio-s-olympic-hospitals-unable-to-take-new-patients-report-says)
And something tells me there is some uncertainty over all the transmission mechanisms (https://www.yahoo.com/news/caregiver-gets-zika-man-died-medical-mystery-161727555.html).
Couple that with a crappy economy and neighbors going into the crapper...this event could be a riot.
I think the lucky people are those not going!
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Ansar al-Khilafah Brazil has pledged allegiance to ISIS
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3697607/Brazilian-extremists-group-South-America-pledge-allegiance-ISIS.html#ixzz4Ex17X3hK (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3697607/Brazilian-extremists-group-South-America-pledge-allegiance-ISIS.html#ixzz4Ex17X3hK)
And three weeks to go...
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As we approach these games...more new "firsts" tallying up...
(https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/nintchdbpict000254845378.jpg)
Rotting corpses have been spotted floating at the rat-infested sailing and wind-surfing venue as officials try to clean it up before the opening ceremony a week today.
Athletes competing in events in the polluted Guanabara Bay are being told to 'close their mouths'
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1512281/team-gbs-olympics-watersport-athletes-warned-unsafe-rio-venue-with-sewage-excrement-dead-body-rio-2016-olympic-games-brazil/ (https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1512281/team-gbs-olympics-watersport-athletes-warned-unsafe-rio-venue-with-sewage-excrement-dead-body-rio-2016-olympic-games-brazil/)
Wow, really? That's it? I would encourage athletes to stay home. Terror threats, rat and corpse infested waters, venues still not complete , poor housing for athletes (athletes complaining that the Olympic Village is a sh*thole!) and attendees, social and economic unrest, Zika, gang-rapes...and now unhappy government workers are rioting and disrupting the torch procession (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/07/28/protesters-in-brazil-halt-olympic-torch-relay-and-extinguish-its-flame/).
And if anything this popular unrest and belief that these games are a bad idea (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/poll-many-brazilians-think-olympic-games-cause-more-harm/2016/07/19/9469b8fe-4dc4-11e6-bf27-405106836f96_story.html) might be cresting at the worst time for Olympic participants and fans.
Seriously, what sane person would go anywhere near this disaster? ::whatgives::
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No medal of any color can be worth going there.
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And if Zika is an increasing issue here at home in Miami especially (http://www.miamiherald.com/news/health-care/article93057392.html), how much more rampant is it in Rio?
::speechless::
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Still on the bright side...
(http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/2016/04/19/20160419_barzil1.jpg)
I'm a male chauvinist pig. Sue me.
Well....it is likely their best export.
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Yup, all is well...nothing to see here...move along.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-04/riots-rio-police-unleash-tear-gas-rubber-bullets-poor-brazilians-block-olympic-torch (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-04/riots-rio-police-unleash-tear-gas-rubber-bullets-poor-brazilians-block-olympic-torch)
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The POS Olympics. As an athlete, I've always had an affinity for the games...but not these games. I hope tragedy besets the festivities...daily. Sewage infested water, alligators, unsafe streets...protests & worldwide implosion...
#F*ckTheGames
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One cool thing though, the first gold medal of the games was to a 19 year old American girl who won gold in the women's 10m air rifle competition. I am actually sort of amazed that the PC police have allowed the Olympics to still have any sort of shooting competitions.
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I am actually sort of amazed that the PC police have allowed the Olympics to still have any sort of shooting competitions.
That would make 2 of us.
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One cool thing though, the first gold medal of the games was to a 19 year old American girl who won gold in the women's 10m air rifle competition. I am actually sort of amazed that the PC police have allowed the Olympics to still have any sort of shooting competitions.
I was shocked they let her thank her father for taking her hunting and teaching her to shoot and that WVU has a shooting team! I mean men, killing natures furry little creatures...universities promoting shooting...Progs have to be appalled such Neanderthal activity still exists and the Feminazi's have to be sickened such a thing continues to lure young women away from their clutches!
:D ::cool::
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Bitch ass Egyptian sore loser refuses to shake hand or bow to victorious Israeli opponent in the judo event. This image is actually emblematic of Arab culture in general: inferiority complex sublimated into an aggressive belligerence.
http://www.reddit.com/r/olympics/comments/4xdm67/egyptian_sore_loser_refuses_to_shake_hands_with/ (http://www.reddit.com/r/olympics/comments/4xdm67/egyptian_sore_loser_refuses_to_shake_hands_with/)
(http://i.redditmedia.com/-OM6SWSG_qi1B0zfQ_zqySU1-78EopqaFdTBmc8xlgY.jpg?w=492&s=d6c12345495b96b3656a5c752a3eb79c)
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Fine, be a dick, I would've told him in his native language he's a low-life follower of a demonic a-hole...no matter how long it took me to memorize it.
Maybe his kind have been bathing in the diving pool...would explain why it is green and smells like ass!
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Ireland having a rough time...
First -
(http://l3.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/LIeEAbHUQjT.AFT8jEl3aQ--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9NzQ0O2g9NDk2/https://67.media.tumblr.com/4057a4dc785cbdd4df8880d7a3d01c2a/tumblr_inline_oc0uq3x9MY1u9tx15_1280.jpg)
RIO DE JANEIRO — There have been far worse robberies in Olympic boxing over the years than what Irish bantamweight Michael Conlan experienced on Tuesday in his quarterfinal loss to Russia’s Vladimir Nikitin.
Roy Jones Jr. and Floyd Mayweather Jr., two of the sport’s legends, each were denied gold medals by dubious calls from clueless judges.
Nobody, however, had a better reaction than Conlan, a 24-year-old who was born in Belfast.
In the ring after Nikitin’s decision was read to the crowd, Conlan raised his arms up in a double middle finger salute to let the judges know what he thought of them.
Then, he went on television and, in a rant filled with curses, accused the International Boxing Association (AIBA) of corruption and said he was through competing in its events.
But the coup de grace came when the 2012 Olympic bronze medalist sent a tweet to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“How much did they charge you bro??” an irate Conlan tweeted directly to Putin.
The three judges, Jones Kennedy Silva do Rosario (Brazil), Udeni Kiridena (Sri Lanka) and Mariusz Gorny (Poland), all scored the bout 29-28 for Nikitin. All three gave Nikitin the first and third rounds and Conlan the second.
Tuesday’s morning session was filled with bad calls – American Gary Antuanne Russell was eliminated in the light welterweight quarterfinal even though Uzbekistan’s Fazliddin Gaibnararov spent most of the last two rounds doing little other than running – but the Conlan-Nikitin fight may have topped them all.
On Tuesday, that is. On Monday, Russian heavyweight Evgeny Tishchenko won the gold medal in a horrid decision over Vassiliy Levit of Kazakhstan.
That verdict might have been the worst of the tournament, though even that couldn’t match the debacle involving Jones at the 1988 Games in Seoul, South Korea. Jones dominated Korea’s Park Si-hun but, unimaginably, lost. The call was so bad, the organizers went to a computerized scoring system in the next Olympics.
None of that was any comfort to Conlan, though, who laid into AIBA and the judges without holding anything back.
He went on Irish television immediately after the bout and immediately began dropping bombs.
“They’re [expletive] cheats, it’s as simple as that,” Conlan said. “I’ll never box for anybody again. They’re cheating [expletives and] they’re paying everybody.”
Conlan won the bronze in his division in London in 2012, and stayed amateur, hoping to capture gold in Rio. It looked like a wise choice last year when he won the AIBA world championships in Doha, Qatar.
But it fell apart unexpectedly on Tuesday with an unusually bad call. Yahoo Sports had Conlan winning all three rounds, and none seemed all that debatable.
Conlan was hit and got cut, and that is something that the judges see and score. Conlan is an outstanding boxer who very much has a pro style, but he went in and brawled with Nikitin, a pressure fighter who couldn’t do anything when Conlan was at range.
He didn’t see any room for grey and saw it simply as a robbery.
“I came for gold and I’ve been cheated,” he said. “I’ll not do another Olympics. I would advise anybody not to compete for AIBA. At the end of the first round, it had been so easy, so comfortable, I wasn’t even out of breath. I said, ‘I’ll win this easily.’ But I was told I was down so I had to go to war.
“I fought him at his own game. I pulled back that second round, then I outfought him in the last round. I’ve been robbed of my Olympic dream.”
Nikitin will face American Shakur Stevenson in the semifinals, but Stevenson said he thought Conlan won the fight.
So did U.S. coach Billy Walsh and associate coach Kay Koroma. Walsh was extremely unhappy about a Monday decision that went against U.S. lightweight Mikaela Mayer in her quarterfinal bout with Russia’s Anastasia Beliakova.
All of those verdicts – Beliakova over Mayer; Tischenko over Levit and Nikitin over Conlan – favored Russian boxers.
Incompetence? Corruption? Whenever things continually favor the Russians, eyebrows will be raised.
And Conlan raised more than a few eyebrows with his gold-medal worthy rant on Tuesday.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/irish-boxer-tweets-vladimir-putin-000000944.html?nhp=1 (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/irish-boxer-tweets-vladimir-putin-000000944.html?nhp=1)
Corruption in boxing? Nooooooo!
::ohno::
::hysterical::
Nice rant though. Wonder if Putin responded yet?
And then...
Reports: Irish IOC chief Patrick Hickey arrested in Rio for ticket scalping.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/report-irish-ioc-chief-arrested-in-rio-111535599.html?nhp=1 (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/report-irish-ioc-chief-arrested-in-rio-111535599.html?nhp=1)
OMG, like that is so worse than keeping state secrets on an unsecure private email server or ignoring citizens calling for help and letting them get slaughtered by rampaging Islaminals! I'm glad this scum is off the streets!
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Well, they're over...nobody died, nobody reported anyway...nobody blown up, nobody reported anyway...nobody die of zika, nobody reported anyway...but one white-priviledged ugly American behaved badly, or so I hear...
And Team AmericaTM came away withe the most medals again and nobody had more in either color...but the one medal that counts the most...contains the least authentic content...
(http://2oqz471sa19h3vbwa53m33yj.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/olympic-medals-metal.jpg)
Yeah, sure...cost, I get that. Why not change the name then? Whatever...
Now Brazil can get back to their impeachment and try to figure out who pays the tab for this lightly attended poor-TV-rating showcase...time for Rio and the rest of Brazil to get back to rioting and looting over their collapsing economy...
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Sad, but predictable.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-21/billions-wasted-structures-built-2016-olympics-brazil-are-now-ruins (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-21/billions-wasted-structures-built-2016-olympics-brazil-are-now-ruins)
Circus...then no circus, or bread...just more death throes of socialism...
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The Olympics are a clusterf(ail) everywhere they are held.
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wow, that stuff went to h@ll fast. Not even a year!